Books by Jean Bernard Lasserre

This book is the first to give an accessible overview of the Christoffel-Darboux kernel as a novel, powerful, yet simple, tool in statistical data analysis. It offers non-expert, graduate-level readers a rapid and informative introduction to an inter-disciplinary subject, with numerous ramifications and intriguing open questions.

This is the first comprehensive introduction to the powerful moment approach for solving global optimization problems. Graduate students, engineers and researchers entering the field can use this book to understand, experiment with and master this new approach through the simple worked examples provided.